Bat volunteers have conducted 65,610 surveys since 1997 and an even bigger citizen science endeavour, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, is 40 years old this year.
"We are now at a watershed where space is transitioning from a celebration of science endeavour into a capability that impacts on our everyday lives," he said.
Following on from Hume and the latter's rejection of induction, Popper took a stand against an empiricist view of science, endeavouring to show via his rejection of verificationism, and consequent espousal of falsificationism, how scientific theories progress.
The benefits of citizen science endeavours can be both scientific and educational.
It has been at the forefront of European Earth science endeavours for a decade, monitoring the land, the oceans, Earth's ice cover and its atmosphere.
There is no directive on what an S-Class mission should do, other than it fit within Esa's "Cosmic Vision" - the strategy document that governs all the agency's space science endeavours and which covers fundamental, but fairly broad, themes about the Universe and our place within it.
Such advancement would have broad impacts on human health and disease, as well as basic science endeavours.
But in an article for the science journal Endeavour, Klaus Reinhardt says protocols kept by the head of the institute allow no other conclusion than that the institute also pursued research into biological warfare.
We are now habituated to regard cartography as a science: an endeavour of exacting precision, whose ambition is the elimination of subjectivity from the representation of a given place.
MAKE a mistaken claim in any branch of science, and endeavours in that field may be tainted for years.
First, the burden of EU legislation for GM technologies is completely out of proportion compared with other science-based endeavours.
